People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

The true value of a forest cannot be measured in board feet alone.

Auctions are a microcosm of how markets function—information, competition, and incentives all interact.

我们不是从祖先那里继承土地，而是向子孙后代借用土地。